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Charles Sumner
Portrait of Charles Sumner, oil on canvas by Edgar Parker, 1874. Depicted here is the American statesman Charles Sumner, whose stalwart abolitionist advocacy saw him infamously brutalized on the floor of the Senate chamber by a pro-slavery...
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Ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment
Mending the Family Kettle, wood engraving appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 16 June 1866. In this political cartoon, Columbia, the female national personification of the United States, holds in her arms a newborn representing...
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NAACP Strangles Jim Crow
"Come, let us take counsel together," poster by Elton C. Fax, 1944. In this NAACP poster advertising a Wartime Conference for Total Peace, a hand grips the neck of Jim Crow, a bird with the tattered flags of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan...
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School Integration, Washington, D.C.
School integration in Washington, D.C., photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 27 May 1955. Depicted here in the foreground are a line of Black and White school girls while boys seated behind look on. The Supreme Court of the United State's...
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Map of the Roman Trade with the East, c. 1st–3rd Centuries - Silk Roads and Indian Ocean Routes across Afro-Eurasia
Roman trade with the East refers to the overland and maritime exchange networks that connected the Roman Empire with Parthian Iran, the Kushan Empire, India, Southeast Asia, Han China, and, from the 3rd century CE, the Sasanian Empire. During...
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Map of the Diocletian's First Tetrarchy and the Roman Empire - Stability Through Division, Succession by Design
The First Tetrarchy (293–305 CE) was Emperor Diocletian's (reign 284–305 CE) solution to the political and military crises that had nearly destroyed the Roman Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century (235–284 CE). Following decades of...
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Map of the Assyria in the Middle Assyrian Period - Campaigns and Rival Powers in the Late Bronze Age
The Middle Assyrian period (c. 1365–1000 BCE) emerged from the shifting balance of power in the Late Bronze Age Near East. After earlier subordination to Mitanni, Assyria reasserted its autonomy under Ashur-uballit I (reign c. 1365–1330 BCE...
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Ulysses and Penelope, Hit Comics 43
Ulysses and Penelope, illustration by Pete Riss, edited by George Brenner, Hit Comics 43, p. 6, United States, Nov 1946. The central couple of Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses (Odysseus) and Penelope, are depicted here in an American superhero comic...
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Ulysses, Penelope and Euryclea
Ulysses, Penelope and Euryclea, drawing by John Flaxman, England, circa 1775-1826. After two decades of being away from his wife, Penelope, Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin) reunites with her, recounting the many tales of the Trojan War and his...
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Helen Recognising Telemachus, Son of Odysseus
Helen Recognising Telemachus, Son of Odysseus, oil on panel by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, 1795. In a scene from Book 4 of Homer's Odyssey, Helen recognizes Telemachus when he visits Sparta due to his striking resemblance to his father, Odysseus...
